Representatives of Hampshire police, criminal barristers and charities for sexual assault victims met with academics and students of Southampton Law school (Professor David Gurnham, Dr Harry Annison and Mark Telford) as well as academics from other institutions in Southampton on Wednesday 13th December to discuss implications arising from new research led by David Gurnham on how young people perceive and understand sexual consent. Participants discussed the research findings in light of their professional experience of safeguarding, supporting victims and prosecuting sexual offending, and how researchers and other professionals can collaborate further on evidence-based approaches to tackling these issues. The project has been funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account and by the Public Engagement in Research unit; the research team will now reflect on participants’ feedback and suggestions for future action and knowledge-exchange, before writing up a draft final report and publishing the findings.

Sick! Festival, Manchester 2017 After performances of 'The Game' (THEATREClub) and 'Traumboy' (Daniel Hellman) I was a panelist for a post-show discussion with Luca Stevenson of the Sex Workers Open University and the perfromers and writers of both pieces.

Debate - Sexual Transactions, Sick! Festival Recording of a debate held at The Basement, Brighton as part of SICK! Festival 2015. There is an argument that says sexual intercourse is only acceptable if both participants share the same motivation, a motivation which is at least sexual and preferably emotional too. The argument is an important one, challenging all kind of abusive and coercive behaviour. But there are other types of consenting transactions, where it is not just hearts and bodies that are on offer. Whilst sex work is probably the most commonly discussed form of transactional sex, the lines between the personal and the economic are often less clearly defined. At a time when sexual abuse so frequently goes unpunished, why does consenting, transactional sex between adults still have the power to provoke such hostility?

I convened the 'Critiquing Crime' stream at the Critical Legal Conference 2014: Power, Capital, Chaos